UTours Inc tracks information related to overall user traffic patterns throughout our site in order to make decisions regarding content and services.
Log FilesLog files are used to track and monitor traffic patterns on our site for maintenance purposes, to enhance usability and to improve overall user experience and site performance.
RegistrationIn order to use the premium content and forum areas of the site, users are required to complete an online registration form. To register, the user is asked to supply certain personal information such as e-mail address, name, and home address. UTours Inc also collects personal information such as postal code, age, and gender.
Email MessagesUTours Inc periodically provides opportunities for our sponsors to send email messages to our users that are considered by UTours Inc to be relevant and of interest to the students, parents or educators who use our website. No personally identifiable information is released by UTours Inc to our sponsors without the user's consent. Email messages may also invite users to take advantage of various promotions, complete surveys, etc. We gather the email addresses of users who voluntarily opt-in during our registration process.
CookiesUTours Inc minimizes the use of cookies to only those necessary to properly route users within our site as well as to track aggregate traffic coming to the site. Cookies add a convenience feature to help the user save time. They are primarily used to help personalize the users' experience on the site. Refusing cookies will not affect the core functions of user registration, but may affect the user's ability to use the "Remember My Email" feature on the homepage as well as view offers from UTours Inc and our sponsors.
Outside LinksThis site contains links to other sites. Users will be taken to a separate site if they click on one of these links. UTours Inc encourages you to review the privacy statements of the Web sites you choose to link to from www.utours.ca so that you can understand how those web sites collect, use and share your information. UTours Inc is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on any other web site a user visits.
Other CircumstancesFrom time to time, UTours Inc may sponsor sweepstakes, contests or other events that require the collection, processing, and storage of individual contact and demographic information to be used for the event. UTours Inc may also co-sponsor these events along with other companies but the user's individual contact and demographic information will not be released to non-participating organizations without the users’ consent. UTours Inc will require that co-sponsors of such events uphold the privacy and appropriate use of the users’ information.
There are cases where UTours Inc asks for personal information such as name, email address, and birth date. UTours Inc may use this information to shape our recommendations to sponsors and scholarship providers regarding scholarship, cash awards and offers that might be of interest to our members. We also use information, which users voluntarily provide, in order to send out electronic newsletters and mailings. UTours Inc does not assume that users who have registered with utours.ca wish to receive the utours.ca newsletters, nor those of our sponsor Dell Inc. Users may opt-in on our registration pages if they choose to receive these correspondences, including information on new promotional programs. UTours Inc also provides members with email notification of online surveys that are conducted periodically, either for internal purposes or on behalf of bona fide third parties. Any personally identifiable information that is submitted by visitors through our online surveys will not be sold or otherwise transferred to an outside company. Our research studies report only aggregate information and never disclose individual personal data, or allow the ability to ascertain information about individuals.
UTours Inc uses the information described above to tailor our content and help our advertisers and third party marketers better understand our audience's demographics. We share personally identifiable information with our advertisers and third party marketers only with user consent. UTours Inc collects and shares anonymous demographic information about our users with advertisers, business partners, sponsors and other third parties. This data is used to customize UTours Inc content and advertising to deliver a better experience for our users and in no way personally identifies the user.
UTours Inc also participates in affiliate networks and various co-marketing alliances to promote our site. For this purpose, we receive and share information in order to analyze site traffic and pattern information so we can evaluate the effectiveness of these programs.
UTours Inc offers users the ability to correct or change the information collected on our site. Users simply need to login and click on "Edit Profile". The original information will be visible and users may now edit any information they wish. Once the changes are made, users must hit the "Save and Continue" button to update the database. Users may change this information at any time and as often as necessary.
UTours Inc reviews all of its policies from time to time and may amend or change this Privacy Policy at anytime: you are encouraged to visit our web site periodically to review our current Policy.
In order to login to utours.ca, you are required to have a combination of password and email address. You are responsible for keeping your password confidential. Do not share it. These unique identifiers are used to protect your personal information and ensure the security of your profile. It is important that you remember your login information.
UTours Inc has created security guidelines and this privacy policy to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of information collected from our web site. Access to personally identifiable information is only provided to authorized UTours Inc employees. Our security guidelines are reviewed from time to time to ensure that the confidentiality of personally identifiable information is protected by the appropriate measures.
The security of personal information is a high priority at UTours Inc. We maintain this Web site and all associated data with technical, administrative and physical safeguards to protect against loss, unauthorized access, misuse, modification and improper disclosure. All underlying machines and firewalls at network access points have restricted access. While no computer system can ever be fully protected against every possible hazard, we provide reasonable and appropriate security controls to protect our Web site and its information.
UTours Inc maintains all files containing personally identifiable information in company owned computer systems, housed in a secure location.